The century-old journey is magnificent, and the century-old party is in its prime.

From Shikumen to Tiananmen, from Xingye Road to Fuxing Road, from more than 50 party members to more than 9100 million party members, the Communist Party of China has united and led the people and created great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention.

How can we always maintain the Party's advanced nature and purity, its vitality, and its support and support from the people. Over the past century, our party has paid attention to self-construction in various periods and persisted in leading the great social revolution with great self-revolution.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has taken a clear-cut stand to uphold and strengthen the party's overall leadership, run the party's leadership through all activities of governing the country, and unswervingly and strictly administer the party in an all-round way. we will further promote the new great project of building the party, the party's leadership has become stronger and stronger, and the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics has ushered in a brighter prospect.

Giving Full Play to the Advantages of the System and Strengthening the Party's Overall Leadership

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has unified command and selected elite forces to invest in the main battlefield of poverty alleviation. A total of 255000 village task forces, more than 300 million first secretaries and village cadres have been selected across the country to join nearly 2 million township cadres. Millions of village cadres are fighting on the front line of poverty alleviation, and the bright red party flag is flying high on the main battlefield of poverty alleviation.

The leadership of the party is the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. In the course of a hundred years, our party has continuously strengthened its overall leadership in all aspects of work, mobilized all positive factors, united all forces that can be united, and formed a strong joint force to promote development.

On January 7, 2021, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to listen to the work reports of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the work report of the Central Secretariat, and the new year Work put forward clear requirements. This institutional arrangement is of great significance to safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and plays an extremely important exemplary role for the whole party.

In order to strengthen the party's overall leadership, in recent years, our party has successively formulated or revised the ''Provisions of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening and Maintaining the Centralized and Unified Leadership of the Party Central Committee'', ''Regulations on Requests for Instructions and Reports on Major Issues of the Communist Party of China'' and other internal party regulations. The centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee has become stronger.

In the struggle for the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, under the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, all departments have cooperated closely, all localities have coordinated and coordinated, and party organizations at all levels have been fully engaged in the struggle to gather great strength.

"I am a party member, I go first" "I am a party member, I take the lead" ...... The majority of party members with practical actions to practice the "ready to sacrifice everything for the party and the people" of the oath to join the party.

Party, government, military and civil studies, east, west, south, north and south, the party leads everything. Giving better play to the greatest advantage of the party's leadership can give full play to the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and provide a stronger institutional guarantee for Chinese Dream, who has realized the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Have the courage to self-revolution, always maintain vitality

On March 23, 1949, when the Party Central Committee left Xibaipo for Beijing, Comrade Mao Zedong said: "Today is the day to go to Beijing for the exam." More than 70 years have passed, and our party has achieved excellent results in this historic examination. At the same time, we are also soberly aware that this examination is still going on. In September 2019, when inspecting the Xiangshan Revolutionary Memorial Site in Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Always maintain the enterprising spirit of striving for success, always maintain the party's advanced nature and purity, and answer well with the sobriety and firmness of'rushing for the examination'. The answer sheet of the new era."

The courage to self-revolution is the most distinctive character and the greatest advantage of our party. In the long history of a hundred years, from the August 7th Conference, the Gutian Conference, the Zunyi Conference to the Yan'an Rectification, from the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party to rectify chaos and re-establish the ideological line of seeking truth from facts to the 18th National Congress of the Party with unprecedented efforts. The construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption, our party has eliminated outstanding problems in the party in time through self-revolution and maintained vitality.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, with the extraordinary courage and perseverance of defying hardships and dangers, with the responsibility and political courage of "I will have no self and will not bear the people", Unswervingly pay close attention to the management of the party and not relax, and promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the party to achieve major results.

-- Grasping political construction in a down-to-earth manner and always maintaining the true nature of politics. Our party puts political construction in a prominent position. The "Regulations on Accountability of the Communist Party of China" and the newly revised "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China" all make clear requirements for the party's political construction. The Party Central Committee also specially issued the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening the Party's Political Construction" to promote the whole party to firmly establish the "four consciousnesses" and resolutely achieve the "two safeguards".

-- Strengthening ideological construction and strengthening ideals and beliefs. In-depth development of the party's mass line education practice activities, "three stricts and three realities" special education, solidly promote the normalization and institutionalization of "two studies and one action" learning education, and in-depth development of "not forgetting the original heart, keeping in mind the mission" theme education and party history learning Education, the majority of party members and cadres continue to strengthen their original mission, build a solid foundation for faith, and supplement the spiritual calcium.

-- Do a good job in organizational construction and give full play to organizational advantages. We have formulated and issued the regulations on the election of local organizations of the Communist Party of China, the regulations on the organizational work of the Communist Party of China, and the regulations on the work of the branches of the Communist Party of China (for Trial Implementation), so as to further strengthen and standardize the organizational construction. Party organizations at all levels are full of vitality and cohesion and combat effectiveness.

-- Promoting discipline construction and strict discipline and rules. Formulate and revise the "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China" and other internal party regulations, and accurately use the "four forms" ...... The cage of party rules and party discipline is getting tighter and tighter, the discipline enforcement mechanism is more complete, the concept of discipline is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the role of discipline as a weapon for governing the party is further demonstrated.

-- Highlighting the construction of work style and curing the stubborn diseases of the "four winds. Formulate and implement the eight regulations, focus on rectifying the "four winds" and invisible variation, set "upper limits" on the treatment of leaders' office space, housing, and cars, regulate the business and operation of enterprises by the families of leading cadres, formulate the Regulations on Strict Economy and Anti-Waste by Party and Government Organs, and formulate the Code of Integrity and Self-Discipline of the Communist Party of China ...... The Party Central Committee has taken a multi-pronged approach and sustained effort to make efforts, and gradually improving cadressive approach.

-- Deepening the fight against corruption and maintaining integrity. With the courage of scraping bones and treating drugs and breaking the wrist, the CPC Central Committee has seriously investigated and dealt with a number of cases of violations of discipline and law by senior cadres, resolutely dealt with unhealthy tendencies and corruption around the masses, and further promoted the international anti-corruption work of pursuing fugitives and stolen goods. it has effectively curbed the momentum of the breeding and spread of corruption, promoted the anti-corruption struggle to achieve an overwhelming victory and consolidated development.

"The winner is strong, and the winner is strong." Powerful political parties are forged in self-revolution. It is the courage to self-revolution that has enabled our party to maintain its vitality and vigor forever.

Always maintain a strong combat effectiveness and create a more glorious future

Sanwan, a small mountain village surrounded by green trees and mountains in Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province. The reorganization of Sanwan in 1927 established the party's leadership over the army organizationally, which was an important beginning of building the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army into a new type of people's army led by the proletariat.

The strength of the party comes from the organization. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has attached great importance to the party's organizational construction and formed a strict organizational system including the party's central organization, local organizations, and grassroots organizations. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to and vigorously promoted the party's organizational construction, forming the party's organizational line in the new era, so that our party has always maintained a strong combat effectiveness.

-- Further expanding the coverage of party organizations. Expand the coverage of party building in emerging areas such as commercial buildings, various parks, business district markets, and online media. More than 99% of urban streets, towns, communities, and administrative villages across the country have established party organizations, and the party organizations of government agencies, institutions, enterprises and social organizations have basically Realize that it should be built.

-- Building a strong fighting fortress. The Party Central Committee has successively formulated and revised a series of organizational construction such as a number of guidelines for political life within the party, party group work regulations, local party committee work regulations, party work agency regulations, branch work regulations, and rural, state-owned enterprises, government agencies, and university grassroots party organization work regulations. The party's regulations have built the "four beams and eight pillars" of organizational regulations ". Under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, the central and state agencies and local party committees have conscientiously implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee. The vanguard and exemplary role of the majority of party members and the fighting fortress role of grassroots party organizations have become more prominent, and historic achievements have been made in promoting the cause of the party and the country.

-- selecting and cultivating a contingent of high-quality cadres. The "Opinions on Strengthening and Improving the Training and Selection of Outstanding Young Cadres" was issued, the "Regulations on the Selection and Appointment of Party and Government Leading Cadres" was revised and promulgated, and the "Regulations on the Assessment of Party and Government Leading Cadres" were issued to provide compliance for the selection and appointment of cadres. At the same time, deepen the reform of the classification management system for civil servants, establish a parallel system of civil servants' positions and ranks, improve the management system for leaders of public institutions, and promote cadres to "be able to go up and down" ...... A strong contingent of cadres provides an important guarantee for overcoming difficulties and helping high-quality development.

The journey of a hundred years is magnificent, and the heart of the beginning of a hundred years is strong. A history of the Party is a history of the Party's continuous strengthening of its own construction and the courage to revolutionize itself. It is through continuous self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation, and self-improvement that our party has created a great history and will create a more glorious future.

People's Daily (05/06/27/2021)

(Editor: Xie Qian, Yan Yan)